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Syntec on October 26, 2006 - 5:45pm

Klepper's patents are related to the gasification unit - an expensive piece of equipment but arguably the best gasifier on the market.

Gasification is important if your feedstock is a solid i.e. coal or biomass but not so if your feedstock is already a gas and both production paths require a highly selective EtOH catalyst.

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Robert Rapier on October 26, 2006 - 5:55pm

Gasification is important if your feedstock is a solid i.e. coal or biomass but not so if your feedstock is already a gas and both production paths require a highly selective EtOH catalyst.

Yeah, it wasn't at all clear to me what they were doing on the back end, or whether they have figured that piece out. Due to the limited number of people working on syngas to ethanol, I thought maybe they were talking to Syntec about the back half of the process.

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